Clang warns: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1278:6: warning: variable 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (!priv->dbg_root) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1303:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here return err; ^~~ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1278:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (!priv->dbg_root) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1259:9: note: initialize the variable 'err' to silence this warning int err; ^ = 0 1 warning generated. This path previously returned -ENOMEM, restore that error code so that it is not uninitialized. Fixes: 810cbb25549b ("net/mlx5: Add missing mutex destroy") Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1042 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c index df46b1fce3a7..ac68445fde2d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c @@ -1277,6 +1277,7 @@ static int mlx5_mdev_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, int profile_idx) mlx5_debugfs_root); if (!priv->dbg_root) { dev_err(dev->device, "mlx5_core: error, Cannot create debugfs dir, aborting\n"); + err = -ENOMEM; goto err_dbg_root; } base-commit: c0cc73b79123e67b212bd537a7af88e52c9fbeac -- 2.27.0.rc0